Chapter Summaries

Qin Hao entered the Immortal Pagoda and claimed the Tower Spirit had appointed him its envoy, offering to help the others create cultivation techniques in exchange for treasures. He obtained four Beast Venerable-level Monster Cores from Dai Jun, Song Xing, and Bai Bing, then asked what techniques they wanted to create.

• Qin Hao told Dai Jun, Song Xing, and Bai Bing he had entered the pagoda to help them create S-rank cultivation techniques, but said he needed Monster Cores.
• Dai Jun, Song Xing, and Bai Bing mistook Qin Hao for an impostor and exposed him, drawing the attention of Sloc and the other foreign powerhouses.
• Qin Hao claimed the Tower Spirit had made him its envoy and said it would let him help create techniques in exchange for heavenly treasures or Monster Cores.
• Sloc and the other powerhouses dismissed Qin Hao and returned to working on their techniques.
• Dai Jun, Song Xing, and Bai Bing gave Qin Hao four Beast Venerable-level Monster Cores, which he exchanged for four billion Great Dao Crystals.
• Qin Hao asked Dai Jun, Song Xing, and Bai Bing what cultivation techniques they wanted to create.

Qin Hao used his Fabrication System to help Dai Jun, Song Xing, and Bai Bing create techniques and clear the stage, earning cultivation-room access cards. After they left to cultivate, Sloc demanded Qin Hao help his group, but Qin Hao insisted they offer valuable items in exchange.

• Dai Jun described a wind-blade cage technique, and Qin Hao used the system to create the SS-rank Wind Blade Cage.
• Qin Hao summarized Dai Jun’s idea for fast, unimpeded flight as the S-rank Windwalking Art, allowing Dai Jun to clear the stage and receive a cultivation-room access card.
• Qin Hao created Ghost Shadow Art for Song Xing and helped both Song Xing and Bai Bing clear the stage and earn cultivation-room access cards.
• Dai Jun, Song Xing, and Bai Bing entered the cultivation room after Qin Hao assured Bai Bing that Sloc’s group would not harm him.
• Sloc demanded that Qin Hao create techniques for his group, but Qin Hao said they needed to exchange valuable items such as Beast Venerable-level Monster Cores or Spirit Liquid.
• Qin Hao wrote a summary of Sloc’s group’s idea, but refused the system’s prompt to generate a technique, and Sloc ordered someone to summarize their ideas too.

Qin Hao tried to pressure the pagoda’s powerful visitors into trading for cultivation methods, then returned to find them eager to pay after seeing Dai Jun and the others advance. He raised his prices, while Liu Qianqian learned he was alive and present in the pagoda.

• Qin Hao offered to create S-rank cultivation methods for Monster Cores or Spirit Liquid, then left the pagoda after warning he might hunt Beast Venerable-level demon beasts.
• Qin Hao posed as Song Shang Taikun, told the gathered Martial Artists about the Bronze Immortal Hall and Nine-Layer Immortal Pagoda, and led them inside.
• The next day, Qin Hao began a Life Simulation and found the pagoda’s first floor had expanded to hold more than a hundred people.
• Qin Hao secretly contacted Liu Qianqian, revealed himself, and promised to help her clear the trial.
• Sloc and the other big shots sought a trade after seeing Dai Jun, Song Xing, and Bai Bing emerge stronger, and Qin Hao doubled his prices.

Qin Hao watched Dai Jun, Song Xing, and Bai Bing die to the hidden old man on the third floor, then learned from Annihilation how the Nine-Layer Immortal Pagoda and Bronze Immortal Hall trials were connected. Concluding that the pagoda’s difficulty depended on the challenger’s strength, he disguised himself as Song Shang Taikun and entered the first floor to earn Great Dao Crystals.

• Qin Hao hid on the third floor and watched the old man ambush Dai Jun, Song Xing, and Bai Bing after they defeated the robot.
• The old man killed the three challengers, found Qin Hao in the shadows, and killed him, ending the life simulation.
• Qin Hao asked Annihilation about the Bronze Immortal Hall and learned it appeared every three thousand years to select its master through trials linked to the Nine-Layer Immortal Pagoda.
• Qin Hao concluded that the pagoda’s trials were adjusted to challengers’ strength, except for the first floor’s S-rank cultivation-technique requirement.
• Qin Hao disguised himself as Song Shang Taikun and entered the first floor to earn Great Dao Crystals.

Qin Hao, disguised as Song Shang Taikun, helped the Chinese group clear the trial and then claimed the Tower Spirit had appointed him its envoy so he could sell S-rank cultivation techniques at increasingly inflated prices. After collecting deposits and payment guarantees from the desperate martial sect experts, he left the Bronze Immortal Hall to collect from the nations’ garrison cities, starting with Meifulia.

• Qin Hao secretly contacted Liu Qianqian, Liu Nengwu, Zhang Qi, Ye Feng, and their companions, offering them S-rank cultivation techniques and trial clearance in exchange for Monster Cores.
• Disguised as Song Shang Taikun, Qin Hao helped the group create cultivation techniques and clear the trial, then warned them that the next trials would be more dangerous.
• Qin Hao announced that the Tower Spirit had chosen him as its envoy and claimed its prices had risen whenever people objected, eventually making Sloc and the other experts agree to pay.
• Sloc and the other experts gave Qin Hao deposits, video proof, and written guarantees for their promised payments.
• Qin Hao left the Bronze Immortal Hall and headed to the nations’ garrison cities to collect, starting with Meifulia.

Qin Hao used his claim to be the Tower Spirit's envoy to collect Beast Venerable-level Monster Cores from Martial Sect powerhouses across several nations in exchange for trial access. After warning Dai Jun, Song Xing, and Bai Bing not to attempt the deadly third-floor trial yet, he waited for the Life Simulator to become available.

• Qin Hao told Monroe Jack that Sloc and two others were trapped in the Nine-Layer Immortal Pagoda while Dai Jun, Song Xing, and Bai Bing had grown stronger, angering Monroe Jack over China's progress.
• Monroe Jack brought Meifulia's Martial Sect powerhouses to the otherworld, and Qin Hao gathered experts from several nations to pay ten Beast Venerable-level Monster Cores each for trial access.
• Qin Hao collected 550 Beast Venerable-level Monster Cores, created one S-rank cultivation technique for each participant, and disappeared before providing a second technique.
• Qin Hao found Dai Jun, Song Xing, and Bai Bing on the second floor and warned them that they would fail the dangerous third-floor trial.
• Dai Jun, Song Xing, and Bai Bing entered the cultivation room to grow stronger, while Qin Hao waited for the Life Simulator to become available.

Qin Hao used a Life Simulation to learn how to evade the third-floor guardian, then cleared the trial in reality and earned a cultivation-room reward. The lonely guardian gave him the Spatial Type cultivation technique Different-Dimensional Space, and Qin Hao went to cultivate.

• Qin Hao discovered through a Life Simulation that the guardian used Spatial Ability to hide and learned to evade his surprise attack.
• After the guardian declared the trial cleared, Qin Hao accidentally killed himself before hearing the news and ended the simulation.
• Qin Hao repeated the encounter in reality, avoided the guardian's attacks, and cleared the third-floor trial.
• Qin Hao received a card granting three shichen of cultivation in the cultivation room and learned that the guardian was a Martial Venerable Fourth Stage expert.
• After chatting with Qin Hao for several shichen, the guardian gave him the Different-Dimensional Space cultivation technique, and Qin Hao headed to the cultivation room.

After clearing the third floor, Qin Hao reached Martial General Third Rank and returned to the Immortal Pagoda, where he disguised himself as a Tower Spirit Envoy to deceive foreign experts again. He collected their Monster Cores and began helping them clear the trial.

• Qin Hao emerged from three months of cultivation-room training, having advanced to Martial General Third Rank, and met Major General Zhang Xingtian at the Bronze Immortal Hall.
• Dai Jun and the others denied knowing Song Shang Taikun when Monroe Jack and Sloc confronted them over his disappearance.
• Qin Hao disguised himself as a Tower Spirit Envoy and helped Li Danfeng, Luo Tian, Lei Wu, Han Fei, and Zhang Xingtian clear the trial.
• Qin Hao claimed the Tower Spirit had killed Song Shang Taikun and chosen him, then introduced himself as Ma Hu Jiong Cao.
• Qin Hao charged Monroe Jack and fifty-four others ten Beast Sect-level Monster Cores each, exchanged the 550 cores for 55 billion Great Dao Crystals, and openly demonstrated the exchange.
• Qin Hao told the group he would help them clear the trial, then whispered to Kawasaki Ono.

Qin Hao exposed himself as Song Shang Taikun to deceive the others in the trial, then left the Bronze Immortal Hall and set out to explore the dangerous Death Desert. During a Life Simulation, he entered the desert and was surrounded by a vast swarm of unknown creatures.

• Qin Hao revealed his Song Shang Taikun disguise, told Kawasaki Ono to clear the trial, and left through the teleportation array.
• Dai Jun and Monroe Jack confronted Kawasaki Ono and the other island nation Martial Sect experts, demanding an explanation for Song Shang Taikun’s actions.
• Qin Hao worried about Dai Jun, Song Xing, and Bing, then left the Bronze Immortal Hall to hunt demonic beasts and seek Spirit Liquid for Great Dao Crystals.
• Qin Hao studied maps from several countries, traveled to the Death Desert, built a cabin on its outskirts, and spent the night there.
• Qin Hao began a Life Simulation and entered the desert, where extreme heat forced him to stop and drink water.
• Qin Hao heard rustling and saw a huge swarm of unknown creatures rushing toward him from all directions.

Qin Hao’s Life Simulation ended when a swarm of powerful ant monsters overwhelmed him in the Death Desert, so he changed course for the Horror Swamp. There, disguised as Austin, he met Faer and a squad from Coste Academy who planned to enter the swamp.

• Qin Hao fled from the Death Desert’s swarming Beast General, Beast Marquis, and Beast King ants, but the Life Simulation ended when the Beast King ants devoured him.
• Qin Hao left the Death Desert and headed toward the Horror Swamp, where a survivor from Meifulia had reportedly found ruins and Spirit Beads.
• Qin Hao reached the Horror Swamp and overheard Faer and five other Coste Academy Martial Artists discussing the swamp and its treasures.
• Qin Hao disguised himself as Austin and approached Faer’s group, claiming to be from Lanfort Academy.
• Faer confirmed that his squad planned to enter the Horror Swamp and asked Qin Hao whether he had a map; Qin Hao discovered Faer was a Martial General Tenth Rank.

Qin Hao joined Faer and his team to explore Horror Swamp, where they fought a mutated Green Poison Python and discovered Spirit Beads inside it. After the group ate the python, two team members broke through and triggered a Thunder Tribulation, drawing the attention of a gigantic python nearby.

• Qin Hao and Faer agreed to explore Horror Swamp together after learning about each other's abilities and resting overnight.
• Qin Hao's group encountered a Beast Marquis Fifth Rank Green Poison Python, whose scales resisted their attacks and broke an S-grade dagger.
• Faer used a curved saber to kill the exhausted python, and Qin Hao secretly collected 100 Spirit Beads from its stomach.
• Qin Hao roasted the python, and two Martial Master Tenth Rank team members broke through after eating it, triggering a Thunder Tribulation.
• A gigantic python saw the Thunder Tribulation from more than ten kilometers away and sped toward Qin Hao's group.

Qin Hao and Faer faced a Heavenly Giant Python in the Horror Swamp after it swallowed their tribulation-surviving companions. Faer wounded the beast with a Destruction Ball and fled, leaving Qin Hao to attack it with Annihilation.

• A Beast Emperor Tenth Rank Heavenly Giant Python surrounded Qin Hao, Faer, and their group, then swallowed the two companions who had just completed Tribulation Transcendence.
• The python struck at Qin Hao and Faer, but Faer’s divine weapon failed to pierce its scales, and the tail sent Faer and the remaining team members flying toward its open mouth.
• Faer threw a Destruction Ball into the python’s mouth and kicked a teammate away to escape; the explosion gravely wounded the beast, and Faer fled toward the swamp’s edge.
• Qin Hao recognized Faer’s Legendary Rank Destruction-Type ability, then armed himself with the Annihilation Divine Spear and Divine Flame Lamp as the python turned its fury on him.
• Qin Hao fired an Annihilation Pearl at the python’s seven-inch weak point and used Wind Wings to dodge its tail.

Qin Hao used Different-Dimensional Space to stay hidden while the Heavenly Giant Python attacked Faer’s team, then followed Faer to prevent him from returning to ambush him. After the python left, Qin Hao pursued it into the swamp.

• In the Life Simulation, Qin Hao killed the Heavenly Giant Python but was ambushed by Faer and died before he could take its Monster Core.
• Qin Hao decided to change his approach, then joined Faer’s team as they entered the Horror Swamp and killed a Green Poison Python.
• Qin Hao took the Green Poison Python’s Spirit Beads and fed its meat to the team, leading two members to break through and draw a Thunder Tribulation.
• As the Heavenly Giant Python arrived, Qin Hao used Different-Dimensional Space to hide and observe while Faer ordered the team to flee after the tribulation.
• The python swallowed several team members, and Faer used one as a shield before injuring the snake with a Destruction Ball and escaping.
• Qin Hao followed Faer until he left the swamp, then returned toward the python; when it headed away, Qin Hao followed it.

Qin Hao killed the Heavenly Giant Python and was ambushed by Faer, who mistook Qin Hao’s Different Space ability for a Dark-Type Superpower before realizing it was Spatial Ability. Annihilation struck back at Faer, leaving him gravely injured and his curved saber shattered.

• Qin Hao fought and killed the Heavenly Giant Python, then recovered and began searching its body for the Monster Core and Spirit Bead.
• Faer attacked Qin Hao with a Destruction Ball, but Qin Hao escaped into Different Space and watched Faer approach the giant snake.
• Qin Hao emerged behind Faer and tried to stab him, but Faer’s Epic Talent-level Dark-Type Superpower made him intangible and seemed to kill Qin Hao.
• Faer recognized Qin Hao’s Spatial Ability after finding his backpack empty, then attacked him with two Destruction Balls.
• Annihilation launched an Annihilation Pearl that destroyed Faer’s curved saber and left Faer badly injured.

After escaping Faer’s illusion, Qin Hao recovered from his injuries, harvested the Heavenly Giant Python’s remains, and created the Ba Snake Six-Stage Slam and its matching Beastification Ability. He began a Life Simulation by heading into Horror Swamp as a sixteen-meter Ba Snake to search for the Spirit Bead ruin.

• Qin Hao woke from Faer’s illusion and learned that Annihilation had also been trapped, allowing Faer to escape with his Dark-Type Superpower.
• Qin Hao and Annihilation found the shattered remains of Faer’s divine curved saber, and Qin Hao spent three days collecting every fragment.
• Qin Hao dissected the Heavenly Giant Python, exchanged its parts and 3,998 Spirit Beads for Great Dao Crystals, and reached Martial General Fourth Rank after eating its meat.
• Qin Hao spent 100 billion Great Dao Crystals to obtain the SSS+ Ba Snake Six-Stage Slam, then cultivated for thirty minutes to gain a Legendary-Talent Strength-Type Ba Snake Beastification Ability.
• Qin Hao practiced through the night, grew into a sixteen-meter Ba Snake, and entered a Life Simulation by slithering toward Horror Swamp.

Qin Hao explored Horror Swamp in Ba Snake form, learned from a Fire-Scale Flame Python that a barrier trapped the demonic beasts inside, and narrowly escaped a Tiger-Stripe Giant Frog that devoured the python. He continued toward the ruins and encountered another Golden-Horned Flood Python.

• Qin Hao approached a Fire-Scale Flame Python and used the system’s language-learning function to speak with it.
• The Fire-Scale Flame Python told Qin Hao that a barrier prevented the swamp’s inhabitants from leaving.
• A Tiger-Stripe Giant Frog attacked, swallowed the Fire-Scale Flame Python, and pursued Qin Hao.
• Qin Hao escaped the frog’s attack by hiding in Different Space, then emerged after it left.
• Qin Hao traveled deeper into Horror Swamp and encountered another Golden-Horned Flood Python after half a day.

Qin Hao learned about the Spirit Bead collection and hunting rules in Horror Swamp, then traveled with a Golden-Horned Flood Python to the ruins. They entered Penglai Immortal City, where a powerful pressure forced Qin Hao back into human form before he secretly transformed into a Ba Snake again.

• Qin Hao learned from the Golden-Horned Flood Python that the swamp was trapped inside an ancient formation and that demonic beasts collected Spirit Beads from the ruins each year.
• The Golden-Horned Flood Python explained that stronger beasts hunted weaker ones for their Spirit Beads, and Qin Hao learned that only three days remained in the collection period.
• Qin Hao and the Golden-Horned Flood Python hunted other Beast King-level demonic beasts together, and the python swallowed their bodies and gained 1,300 Spirit Beads.
• After traveling for a day and night, Qin Hao and the Golden-Horned Flood Python reached the ruins, which were a city called Penglai Immortal City.
• The Golden-Horned Flood Python warned Qin Hao that fighting inside the city would bring a deadly punishment, and they entered through its enormous bronze gates.
• A powerful pressure forced Qin Hao back into human form, but he quickly used his Beastification Ability to transform into a Ba Snake again.

Qin Hao followed the Golden-Horned Flood Python into the ruins, which contained a city where demonic beasts gathered to collect Spirit Beads. The altar exposed Qin Hao as a human and injured him, but he entered the City Lord's Mansion unhindered and chased the Spirit Beads drawn inside by a mysterious golden light.

• Qin Hao agreed to the Green Poison Python's plan to ambush the Golden-Horned Flood Python, while the Golden-Horned Flood Python also secretly knew of the plot.
• Qin Hao and the Golden-Horned Flood Python reached the City Lord's Mansion training ground, where an altar distributed 100 Spirit Beads to each demonic beast.
• When Qin Hao stepped onto the altar, its power revealed his human form and blasted him away, leaving him severely injured without any Spirit Beads.
• Qin Hao drank Spirit Liquid to recover and entered the City Lord's Mansion, while demonic beasts who tried to follow were killed by a mysterious force.
• A golden light sent the dead beasts' Spirit Beads into the mansion, and Qin Hao followed them with Wind Wings.

Qin Hao followed the Spirit Bead into a hidden chamber beneath the City Lord's Mansion and discovered records about ancient gods and the world's revival. He escaped a horde of maggot-covered zombies, but a Life Simulation ended with a vampire bat killing him; afterward, he set off for the Horror Swamp, confident he knew how to handle it.

• Qin Hao found a floor mechanism in the empty City Lord's Mansion and opened a passage to a hall containing statues of the Three Pure Ones.
• Qin Hao used the system to read the oracle bone script, which described ancient myths and said that the world would revive along with 3,600 world spaces.
• Qin Hao found himself surrounded by ancient zombies covered in powerful maggots, then used Different Space to avoid them and press deeper into the passage.
• Qin Hao emerged among a vast zombie army, used several abilities to reach a bronze gate, and escaped through it by transforming into a Ba Snake.
• Qin Hao approached a door marked Treasure Pavilion, but a human-sized vampire bat attacked him and ended the Life Simulation.
• Qin Hao woke from the simulation, recognized the bat as the vampire from Meifulia's account, and headed toward the Horror Swamp as a Ba Snake.

Qin Hao hunted demonic beasts for their Spirit Beads, then followed a trail of beads into a hidden passage beneath Penglai Immortal City's City Lord's Mansion. In Ba Snake form, he used Different Space to sneak past a passage crowded with zombies, but the Spirit Beads had vanished from sight.

• Qin Hao killed the Fire-Scale Flame Python and the Tiger-Spotted Frog, collected their Spirit Beads, and exchanged them for Great Dao Crystals.
• Qin Hao changed his route, hunted demonic beasts ahead of the Golden-Horned Flood Python, and collected 6,795 Spirit Beads.
• Qin Hao ambushed and killed the Green Poison Python outside Penglai Immortal City, taking its 1,000 Spirit Beads.
• Qin Hao entered the City Lord's Mansion in human form, and rash demonic beasts who followed him through the barrier were killed by a mysterious power.
• Qin Hao followed the Spirit Beads' golden light to a hidden underground passage, transformed into a Ba Snake, and used Different Space to pass the zombies inside.